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Stelios Tsagkris
@steliostsagkris.bsky.social
PhD student in the Hackett group at EMBL Rome - Functional genomics, chromatin, transcription | MSc at ETH Zurich - RNA biology | Full name: Stylianos Tsagkris 🇬🇷 🇪🇺
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🗨️ Just published in Nature Biotechnology: Our CellWhisperer AI enables chat-based analysis of single-cell sequencing data. You can talk to your cells & figure out the biology without writing any computer code. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Annotated walkthrough in a thread below (1/11)
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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After many years abroad, Fabio Petroni has returned to Italy to establish an independent research group at EMBL Rome.

Here, he will be developing AI systems to support life science research.
Read more in his interview: www.embl.org/news/?p=7718...
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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We are looking to take on an intern at EMBL Rome, for anyone interested in CRISPR and Epigenetics training.

The traineeship is 3-12-months, in Rome (Italy), should start by July, and is supervised by the outstanding @steliostsagkris.bsky.social.

#job #internship; see info below...
May 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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I think people both within science and outside science don’t fully appreciate the miracle that were the Covid-19 vaccines. How much courage it took to get the sequence out, how much work had already gone into figuring out the best viral antigen and how best to present it. 1/
February 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Do you have ambitious plans to study the molecular mechanisms of environmental adaptation in mammalian model systems? Join EMBL Rome as an independent group leader: generous core funding & benefits, top-level students & core facilities. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
January 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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As an "EIPOD" interdisciplinary postdoc in @jamiehackett.bsky.social and our lab, @denbobalab.bsky.social found that "Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness" (2024): antibiotic treatment of male mice led to low birth weight & higher mortality in offspring

www.nature.com/artic...
Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness
Nature - Disturbances in the gut microbiota of male mice manifest as fitness defects in their offspring by affecting plancenta function, revealing a paternal gut–germline axis.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Postdoc positions in epigenetics!

We have several opportunities to investigate big picture questions on (epi)genome function & mechanisms

Based @embl.org near Rome (Italy), we offer full scientific support/facilities, training & funding. Also...☀️🏛️🍕🏖️

See👇or contact me for other options. Pls RS
December 2, 2024 at 11:32 AM
My first post - Blue sky in Orbetello, Italy
November 16, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Evo: A genomic language model of prokaryote genomes generates functional cas9 proteins and transposons.

@brianhiestand.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 14, 2024 at 8:53 PM